1.   But when he started spending funds in the direction of improving the downtown business district, he became an inspiring city leader.

2.   Civic and church leaders are turning to downtown businesses for help in replacing shrinking government resources.

3.   Downtown business types worry about things like access to parking garages.

4.   Downtown businesses operated sump pumps as the subsoil water level rose.

5.   In several cases, basement walls and floors in downtown businesses buckled from the pressure.

6.   The management at South Forks raised the rent in anticipation of downtown businesses relocating.

7.   City officials bent over backwards to help downtown businesses.

8.   These trails will link a dozen neighborhoods and the downtown business areas.

9.   Along the half-hour walk, abbreviated Thursday in consideration of his companions, the mayor passed hundreds of shoppers and downtown business people.

10.   Although Comstock believes the proposed mall would drain customers away from downtown businesses, none has rushed to join in opposition.